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Liars Rundgren has been woodshedding it with high technology for too long. On his latest, a state-of-the-world address (guess what state it's in), he drowns...Liars Rundgren has been woodshedding it with high technology for too long. On his latest, a state-of-the-world address (guess what state it's in), he drowns...2004-04-16

Rundgren has been woodshedding it with high technology for too long. On his latest, a state-of-the-world address (guess what state it’s in), he drowns decent melodies in a miasma of digitized keyboards and electronic drum sounds that are as strident as his screeds. It sounds hermetic, as if Rundgren’s a crank who locked himself into his home studio and threw away the key.